Postcivnig on Nostr: There is a relationship between sustainable materials and population management. ...

There is a relationship between sustainable materials and population management. Unsustainable materials have allowed human populations to decouple from their environments. Behind the guise of CO2, but primarily due to the future scarcity of fossil fuels, the managerial state is using economic means (i.e. inflation, manufactured supply chain disruptions, war, etc.) to force us to reduce our consumption, because technology hasn't been able to increase material efficiencies to balance the scale of global consumption at current human population levels. Urban life, with all its petrochemicals, is completely reliant on crude oil and natural gas. Electric cars and green energy are only a part of the larger solution. Polymers, adhesives, reagents, solvents, composites, organometallics, semi-conductors, pharmaceuticals, etc. all use petrochemicals in their supply chain. The chemistry isn't there to fully replace them, so we need to think about life after industrial capitalism while we try to find a few replacement molecules critical for sustained survival. This is not out of some puritanical or ideological slant, but because nothing else is materially feasible. As we reimagine our relationship with technology, we may learn that many puritanical ideals are more harmful to life than using the principle of balance and harm reduction in everything we do.
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